Random thoughts

Posted: Sunday, April 03, 2011

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Tempting sport

The sports pages of Thursday's Banner-Herald included four brief items on college football. One read, in part, "The Fiesta Bowl ejected its chief executive amid corruption allegations ... ."Another noted that "(f)our former Auburn players have (reported) they received thousands of dollars while being recruited by or playing for the Tigers."

An item on new University of Michigan head football coach Brady Hoke reported that he "will average $3.25 million annually ... if he fulfills the six-year contract signed Monday."

There was also a report that Ohio State officials had recommended head football coach Jim Tressel "be suspended the first five games of this season for failing to report that his players sold memorabilia ... ."

There are enormous sums of money tempting collegiate players and coaches.

These are four examples, from just one day.

William Davis

Wrong on waste

The March 25 commentary from Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols raised the hair on the back of my neck. The idea that private industry should tackle the disposal of high-level radioactive waste is wrongheaded.

Industry is in it for profit, not public safety.

Older Athenians like me will remember the radium watch-dial plant on Atlanta Highway.

The company disbanded and simply walked away, leaving the site contaminated with dangerous levels of radium and requiring government action to clean it up.

This is a poor omen for the private sector's idea of responsibility.

I sure hope Echols doesn't speak for the entire Georgia Public Service Commission.

D. A. Crossley, Jr.

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